Senators to work harder to attract investments to Belarus“Any country needs investments these days. Legislative efforts to raise investments for Belarus represent one of the kinds of work that lawyers do. In my opinion, no investors will come to work in Belarus if they are not sure whether their investments will be legally protected or not”...

Belarus expected to worthily preside over CSTO"Belarus’ presidency promises to be full of content. In this case we are absolutely sure that our Belarusian partners will worthily perform these functions,” said Dmitry Peskov, Press Secretary of the President of Russia...

14 Oct 2016

Lukashenko: CSTO doesn’t have to wait for NATO’s recognitionThe Belarus President said: “All of us have stated that nobody wants to recognize the CSTO, particularly NATO. It seems we are not the right sort. I was listening to this talk, thinking that they will never recognize us if we beg for their recognition. We have to force them to recognize our organization”...

Belarus, Australia urged to expand cooperation"Australia and Belarus have cooperation prospects in such areas as mechanical engineering, including the agricultural one, the agro-industrial complex in general, culture, and the organization of sport events." The diplomat stressed that the main thing is to find common areas of interest...

13 Oct 2016

Belarus, Russia's Kurgan Oblast urged to boost bilateral trade“We need to reach at least $100 million in mutual trade. I think that this goal is feasible,” Andrei Kobyakov said said as he met with Kurgan Oblast Governor Aleksei Kokorin. Priority should be given to cooperation in trade, engineering, industry, and agriculture...

Belarus hopes to sign trade agreement with EU in future“The agreement on commercial dialogue which we have signed today is obviously not the final stop in our trade relations. This document is the first step in the development of a modern and transparent legal framework. In the long term, we would like to sign either a separate trade agreement with the EU or a new partnership and cooperation agreement,” Andrei Yevdochenko said...